Trophy hunting really is the lowest of the low. These people, these wealthy sadists, get on a plane and pay huge sums of money with the sole intention of killing as many animals as they can and then they get a prize for it. I find it staggering that the government allows trophy hunters to bring these sick souvenirs into the country. I find it equally staggering that it allows foreign hunters to come to the UK to shoot animals here and take their trophies away with them. We need a blanket ban. We need to put an end to this grotesque barbarism.
Trophy hunting has had its ugly day in the sun . It’s not a sport, in sport there is fair competition , here the animals die and the humans sit on their corpses for a selfie. Trophy hunting is about killing wildlife and when more and more species are heading towards the brink of extinction it’s no longer ethically or morally acceptable.
Trophy hunters are not conservationists. They are people who kill animals for fun. They then make up excuses to try and justify their so-called ‘sport’. If trophy hunting was good for conservation, why have lion populations fallen from 450,000 in the 1950s to just 20,000 today? Why have elephant numbers fallen from over 1 million in the 1980s to just 400,000 today? Why are rhinos, cheetahs, leopards, hippos and giraffes ALL in serious trouble?
With your support, we are stronger. We are pushing all trophy hunting to be banned. We want countries to ban imports of hunting trophies, and are pushing for an international treaty to abolish the ‘sport’.
British trophy hunters are among the most ruthless of the lot. They joke about having a few beers and shooting monkeys. They laugh about shooting cats out of trees. They brag about luring leopards with bait so they can shoot them at point-blank range. They celebrate blasting big holes out of zebras and killing some of the world’s biggest lions, elephants, and rhinos.’’ Ricky Gervais on British trophy hunters
With your support, we are stronger. We are pushing all trophy hunting to be banned. We want countries to ban imports of hunting trophies, and are pushing for an international treaty to abolish the ‘sport’.
We’re fighting to EXPOSE & END Trophy Hunting. Please support our work to consign Trophy Hunting to the dustbin of history – and to bring trophy hunters to book.
I’m backing this proposal to ban the import of hunting trophies into the U.K. Every year, hippopotamuses, elephants, lions, zebras and other really important species are being killed, sometimes in enclosures where the animals can’t escape to enable trophy hunters to say ‘look – I’ve bagged one of these animals’. It’s a despicable activity. It shouldn’t be allowed. These are endangered species, and one thing that we can do here in the U.K. to help bring this activity to an end is to say, ‘you’re not bringing your hunting trophy back into the UK. --- Hilary Benn MP
I believe that the pastime of trophy hunting is one of the vilest and cruellest so-called sports that there is. The idea that a person can go out and, for pleasure, shoot and maim a proud wild animal is wholly unacceptable. To then allow the importation of the product of that slaughter is worse.’ --- Sir Roger Gale MP
Trophy hunting isn’t just appalling for the beautiful creatures concerned; it also does something terrible to our common humanity. --- Shadow Attorney-General Baroness Shami Chakrabarti
Ban Trophy Hunting is Britain’s and the world’s leading organization working to abolish ALL Trophy Hunting. We conduct uncompromising, front-line investigations to expose barbaric acts against animals, and we also take part in advocacy to support a ban against hunting for fun and pleasure.
